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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, October ten,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's Word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study series themes in the Gospel of John and our

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caption for today is the Resurrection of Lazarus. The Resurrection

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of Lazare Yes, we'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this day

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and getting us so far into our week. Father, I

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just pray that we will trust you for every step

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in our lives, that you will transform our lives, resurrect

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all the things that are now dead in our lives

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that you want for us to live in. Please give

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us a living faith to connect with your power in

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Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. The resurrection

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of Lazarus. What an incredible story. And as I have

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said to you many times before, it's not just about stories.

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Even those stories are incredible good stories. That's wonderful like

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it gets our minds going. It helps us to dream

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and envision the things of God. I'm talking about those

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kinds of stories. But we need to really start to

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apply the stories. We need to see how those stories

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are connected to who we are and who God wants

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us to be, you see. And so the story of

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Lazarus is one such story, the resurrection, the resurrection. And

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so now we understand from the Bible Book of John

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chapter eleven, when you have your spare time, no, not

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spare time, I want you to prioritize the time. I

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take it back like repeat, like edit, I need you

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to prioritize time. Read in the Bible Book of John

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chapter eleven and see what God did there, Okay? And

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so the Bible says that there was a message. The

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people that Jesus loved sent a message to him to say,

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the one whom thou lovest, the one you love, Lazarus,

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he's sick. He's sick. Now, if somebody that you're very

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close to is very sick and people are sending a

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message to you, there's an expectation from the people who

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sent the message. Ah, there's an expectation. Like in this case,

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the expectation would be that Jesus would show up like

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he would get on the first thing, smoking a donkey,

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he would walk. I don't know how he always traveled, Camel,

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I don't know. But they expected that he would show

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up and show up quickly. Why because the one that

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you love, Jesus, he is sick, he's deathly ill. Okay. Well,

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Jesus didn't do that. And the Bible says that he

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did not show up until the fourth day. Okay, the

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fourth day. This is the time where people would lose hope,

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because even based on the way that the people of

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God and the people around in the community looked at death,

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it was like only after the third day. So by

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the fourth day they're really dead. We can still argue

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about it until it's the fourth day. Once it's the

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fourth day, we're not arguing anymore. That person is actually dead.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why they thought that way, but that's

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the way that they thought. And so Jesus he goes

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at the point where it's the apex of hopelessness in

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people who had no hope. Okay, And so I will

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read now for the Book of John, chapter eleven, verse

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thirty eight. Jesus therefore, again, groaning in himself, cometh to

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the grave. It was a cave, and the stone lay

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upon it and then he starts to speak. Now we

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get to roll back a little bit, roll back a

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little bit in time. Jesus shows up. It is the

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fourth day, and as soon as he gets near enough someone,

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one of the sisters, she comes and she says, Jesus,

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if you had been here, our brother would not have died.

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And it's like, okay, I'm here now, but Jesus, we're

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hopeless now, right, But I'm here now, So let me

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just share something with you. Do you believe that I

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can wake him up? Do you believe that I can

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wake him up? I left out a lot about the story,

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the discussion between heat Jesus and his disciples, But now

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do you believe that I can I can wake him up?

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The people are already distraught. Jesus weeps because the people

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are distraught even though Jesus is present there. They felt hopeless,

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even though the hope of life is in their presence.

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Do you believe that I can raise him? Right? Can

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I raise him from the dead? And then, of course

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the sister, thinking that she had faith, was saying, yes,

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of course, I believe. I believe that in the resurrection

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that's in the future, like we haven't even gotten to

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that point. Yet this October in twenty twenty four, and

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in the resurrection, you can do it. You can do it.

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And Jesus is saying, now, he's implying, listen, I am

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the Resurrection. He says those words. He's saying, you're limiting

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my power by circumstances and time. If you had been

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here past tense, my brother would not have died. He's dead. Okay,

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what does that mean to the one who gave life

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to every living thing, every creature that has ever lived.

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Jesus gave life to that creature, every human who's ever lived.

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Jesus gave life to that human. And so the Bible

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is teaching us, in Jesus's voice that, no matter how

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hopeless the situation appears to us, that he is currently

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the resurrection. I am, he said, the resurrection and the life.

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If a person dies, huh, yet shall he live if

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that person has faith in me? Like, do you believe this?

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And so the Bible says, Jesus said, okay, all right,

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take away the stone. You take away the stone. Martha,

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the sister of him that was dead, said unto him,

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But Lord, by this time, he's decomposing. He stinketh, and

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he's been dead for four days. She's saying it's hopeless.

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It's hopeless. Jesus said, unto her, said I not unto THEE,

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that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory

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of God verse forty one. He's speaking to you, brothers

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and sisters, right now. Then they took away the stone

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from the place where the dead was laid, and Jesus

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lifted up his eyes, and he said, Father, I thank

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THEE that thou hast heard me verse forty two. And

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I knew that thou hearest me always. But because of

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the people which stand by, I said that they may

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believe that thou hast sent me. And then when he

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had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice. He

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was very specific, brothers and sisters. He said, Lazarus, come forth.

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What happened? I need you to type in the chat.

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When he said Lazarus, come forth, what happened? The Bible

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says here in verse forty four. And he that was dead,

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I want you to type in the chat he was dead,

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but God, he was dead, but God, he that was

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dead came forth bound hand and foot, with grave clothes

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and his face was bound about with a napkin, and

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then Jesus said, unto them, loose him and let him go.

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You see, Jesus came into the space where the people

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were hopeless. Jesus came into the space where they were

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hopeless to bring hope and glory. Hope to the people

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and glory to God. He wanted them to understand that

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his power is not limited to time or space. His

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time is not limited by circumstances. When Jesus, who is life,

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is in the place where you are, and he is

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present to heal and to transform, just have faith in

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him and he will remove the grave clothes. He will

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loose you and let you go so you can be

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of glory to Him.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,